The Kiwi opener has challenged the beefy South Australian to a
running race on the Adelaide Oval later this month.

Richardson has a tradition of taking on the slowest opposition
player at the end of a Test series.

But what has made the so-called sprints more colourful has been
the snail-paced Richardson's decision to wear a speed suit such as
Cathy Freeman wore at the Sydney Olympics.

Richardson's get-up is much less tasteful, his outfit a tribute
to the ugly one-day outfits that New Zealand wore during the
1980s.

It is beige with a thick chocolate brown strip down each side
and he quipped it hadn't lowered his times.

Richardson, 33, nicknamed Rigor as in rigor mortis, thought
Lehmann's recent hamstring problem would play into his hands even
if the race was on Boof's home turf.

"I worry because I think he could be deceptively quick, but
seeing as he is coming back from (a hamstring) injury I'd like to
have a crack at him," Richardson said.

There is some debate over the former Otago batsman's success in
his three races.

"Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, he was dreadfully slow
and I smashed him," Richardson bragged.

"The South Africans stitched me up by putting up a quick fellow
against me.

"I guess that is their sense of humour, (the) slow coaches were
not prepared to run so Neil McKenzie gave me a hiding and Ashley
Giles was a well fought-out race.

"Under the IOC rules I probably lost the race to Ashley Giles,
but it is my race and my rules say diving over the line is OK."

The Kiwi said he packed his speed suit for the tour and hoped
the Australians in particular Lehmann would come to the party.

"At the end of the series I will race if they are willing to
enter into the spirit of it," he said.

"They are a pretty proud bunch and might not want to lower
themselves to that sort of stupidity, but our guys like it, and I
am prepared to run if someone was up to it, and we can build it up
in the media."

The Auckland batsman, one of international cricket's most
colourful characters, said he had accepted the limitations of his
body a long time ago.

"I have been a stiff bugger since I was about 16. I have never
been that good in the field. I have never been that athletic," he
said.

"It is hereditary. My old man waddles when he runs and I am just
unfortunately stuck with it."